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Polluting the environment kills people too.

> It's a difference between knowingly killing and accidentally killing. Legally, there is a huge difference. I'd argue morally there is too, but you can decide for yourself.

I wonder if the victim's families give much of a shit about the difference in question here.

This scenario is slightly different though. It doesn't explicitly preclude the possibility that if funds are diverted to program B, that the one person being saved by program A might also be saved under program B, plus an additional four others.

Yes, I'm sure. Why are you so hellbent on doubting me?

> I didn't claim that teachers take their stress out on students. I simply claimed that if they did, they are horrible and unprofessional.

Maybe there is misunderstanding around the phrase "take out on" (it doesn't imply intentionality to me), but how could stress not affect a teacher's performance in the class room? It doesn't mean they're horrible and unprofessional, it means they're human!

DIBELS, MAPS, Common Core, etc. Some of these happen multiple times a year.

I honestly can't remember all of the names, but I can assure you there were more. I was a tutor -- I never administered any of these tests -- and it was three years ago. Just Google "first grade standardized tests" and you'll find some more, though I can't remember which of those in particular the kids at my school took. Each state has its own standardized tests too...

To be honest, I enjoyed taking standardized tests when I was a student, but it became clear to me that for most kids (most of whom didn't have the stress-free, charmed existence that I had growing up) it's just demoralizing and useless.

I worked for a year as a tutor in an elementary school. Even the first graders are doing six or seven standardized tests every year, plus random additional tests (including those given by me and my fellow reading tutors, testing every student in the school three times yearly to see if they qualified to be tutored).

The kids would even get their scores back too, so would be distraught when they didn't match up to other classmates who would brag about doing better. I tutored kids who were behind a bit in reading, so of course my students were consistently stressed out before the tests and afterwards, they would tell me how this bullshit test meant that they're "stupid". I had many kids use that exact word.

The teachers universally hated it too, since they constantly had administrators breathing down their necks and it severely restricted their freedom to teach creative, engaging material.

And it happens at all levels of dealing too, not just the CIA flying in bricks... I know people who have been robbed by the cops for drugs.

One friend got off with only a warning for having 10 ounces of high-grade weed, which were then "confiscated". Another, who has been selling cocaine since his mid-teens, begrudgingly gives out 8-balls to a few cops that recognize his cars and pull him over at any opportunity.

Show me any evidence that taking a drug causes a person to beat their spouse or neglect their child.

And, for anyone who would drive intoxicated or cripple their health via drug abuse, that is already easy to do -- drugs aren't hard to find if you're looking. Prohibition hasn't and will not stop any of the negative consequences of drug use.

No one said that robbers should be punished less harshly if they have an addiction.